Combination dipper and funnel.



H. GERLING.

COMBINATION DIPPER AND FUNNEL.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 15, 1910.

Patenfed July 19, 1910.

WITNESSES..-

UNITED STATES PATENT orrion HERMAN enanmo, or $1. noUIs, MIssoUaI. I

COMBINATION DIPPER FUNNEL.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 19, 1910.

Application filed April 15, 1910. Serial No. 555,664.

My invention has relation to improve ments in household dippers and it consists in the novel construction of dipper more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the dipper shown extended; Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a verticalmiddle section; on line 33 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a perspective diagram showing the manner of dis osition of the wiring; and Fig. '5 is a side e evation of the dipper in its contracted or collapsed form.

The present invention though admirably adapted for use in connection with milk, cream, butter-milk and the like, may be used in dispensing an liquid and measuring specific quantities rom one vessel to another. It has for its object to provide a dipper which will ldispense with the necessity of tipping the dipper to our out the contents of the same, as is usua with the prevailing milk-mans dipper. In the present improvement a valve controls a discharge 0 ening at the bottom of the dipper, the va ve being manipulated b the hand of the operator from a point a ove the vessel of the dipper proper.

A further object is to provide a dipper which canstand unsupported when tem-i' porarily' not in service; one which may easily discharge into narrow mouthedves sels or through small openings, and one possessing further and other advantages better apparent from a detailed description of the invention which is as follows Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a preferably cylindrical vessel constituting t-he dipper proper, the'same being providedwith a conical bottom 1',havin a central discharge mouth 'or. opening Formed about the upper ed e of the vessel 1 is a bead 6 made -by fo ding the metal of the vessel over a band. of wire w as usual in sheet metal vessels, the wire in the present instance after the formation of the bead, being bent upwardly in the form of a rigid handle 2. The upper end of the handle 2 is then bent outwardly in the form of a hand-hold 3 terminating in a resilient loop 4 from which it is again bent inwardly in the form of a yielding fin er-hold 5, thence downwardly in the form 0 a yielding plunger rod 6 guided in a basal loop 7 formed in the wire portion 2. The bottom extension 6 of the plunger 6 inclines inwardly and downwardly toa point above the discharge opening 0 whereit is connected to a rubber.

or equivalent valve V, normally seated over and closing the opening 0 under the resilient action of the loop 4. The resiliency of the loop 4: tends to diverge the finger-hold member u 5 from the hand-hold member 3, and thus force the plu "ger 6 into the cup or dipper, and the valve V to its sea-t.

Loosely encompassing the vessel 1 is an outer shell or band S which hugs thewalls of. the vessel sufiiciently to remain in whatever position it may be shifted; and if pulled or adjusted downwardly to a point to bring the lower edge of the shell in the plane of or just beyond the plane of the opening 0, and then set down on a table or level surface, the dipper will stand up. To have the dipper in a standing position while being used, is a great advantageto the housewife, or milk-man, as whatever liquid may be inadvertently left in the vessel will I not be spilled where not wanted; besides the standing position of the di per is a more convenient one, as the han e is in a convenient position to be grasped and manipulated.

To use the dipper the person seizes the parts 3 and 5 between the alm of the hand and the fingers respective y, then dips the vessel 1 into theliquid to be di ped as usual. To discharge-the contents of tlie dipper the operator squeezes the parts 3 and 5 together, and since the part5 is the yieldi member of the two, it will move towardt e part 3 and lift the plunger 6. The pull on the plunger unseats the valve V and the contents will discharge through the opening 0 (Fig. 1). Where it. is desirable to dischar e the contents of the dipper into a bottle having a neck to which the discharge pug of the conical bottom 1" can be sap (Fig; 5) the shell S may be slippe ack over' the vessel 1, so as be out of the way,

leaving the bottom 1" f ully exposed. The device thus constitutes a combination dipper, funnel, and a measure.

Having described my invention, what I claim :is v i 1; 'A dipper comprising a vessel provided with a conical bottom having a discharge ,opening,'a sliding shell frictionally secured fabout the walls of the vessel and adapted .to be slipped to bring its lower edge in the plane of the discharge opening whereby the ,vessel may stand up on a horizontal sup- I porting surface.

2. A dipper comprlsinga vessel having a bottom discharge, a wire bead at the upper edge of the vessel, an upward extension of said bead forming a handle, an outwardly deflected terminal forming a hand-hold and terminatin in a resilient 00p, an inwardly deflected ger-hold extendmg from said loop, a downward extension from said finger-hold forming a plunger, a valve at the lower end of the plunger normally seating over the discharge 0 ening, and a loop HERMAN GERLING. Witnesses W. O. KILLEEN, CHAS. A. BECKER. 

